Anime Eikaiwa: Tondemo Nezumi Daikatsuyaku

Anime Eikaiwa – Tondemo Nezumi Daikatsuyaku is a fully voice and text driven digital novel based on the TV animation Tottoi with the added bonus of being fully bilingual. You can choose from any combination of Japanese / English text and audio. You may have figured out already that Tottoi is in fact Time spelt backwards.

The game is actually an interactive movie since the player can only watch how the story advances through the different game scenes. The only gameplay is in the educational part of the software that is actually very good. You have exercises, English vocabulary tests and a Japanese to English dictionary. The game can also be used to teach English speakers Japanese. Of course you can’t use most of the exercises but at least you can use the dictionary and play the game in English.